St Cornelius

The tall 3 stage C14 tower has roll moulded plinth, angle buttresses, single string course, moulded parapet with gargoyles to the angles.

In the belfry stage are paired C15 lights with cusped heads and panel tracery to each face.

At the north east angle of the aisle are 2 corner buttresses terminating in C14 floriated canopies.

The east aisle window is C14 and has 3 lights with round cusped heads and a segmental arched head.

The nave clerestorey consists of 3 pairs of C13 lights beneath segmental arches with cusped ogee heads and panel tracery, on both north and south sides.

In the west wall of the aisle is a small late C12 round headed window with hollow chamfer.

The C14 inner doorway is single chamfered with simple chamfered imposts and hood mould.

The early C14 3 bay arcades have double chamfered arches on octagonal piers on moulded capitals.

The C14 tower arch has double wave mouldings dying into the reveals without capitals.

From south aisle is a late C13 arch to south chapel supported on octagonal corbels, that on south side having an earlier annular capital beneath it.

In the north nave wall is a doorway at high level to the rood loft and also in the nave 8 C14 corbels support the C19 roof and are decorated with human heads.

In the chancel south wall is a double chamfered arch with octagonal responds opening into the former south chapel now vestry, and the presumably reset remains of a late C13 double piscina with engaged shafts and human masks on the bowls, surmounted by C19 trefoil over.

All fittings are C19, the chancel screen was erected in 1911, but the font is a recut of the original late C13 font and includes the original base.

TF1185 : Original 14th Century Font, St Cornelius' Church, Linwood

© Chris

In the aisle and chancel windows is late C19 stained glass.

At the west end of the south aisle is a battered C17 chest.

Monuments.

At the west end of the north aisle are 2 fine early C15 brasses.

On the north is a merchant, John Lyndewode, d. 1421, with his feet resting on a woolsack on which is his woolmark.

On the south is a merchant and his wife, John and Alice Lynwode, d. 1419, with beneath a panel containing 7 figures under cusped arcades.

Between the 2 brasses is an abraded slab with a Lombardic inscription and probably the matrix for a now vanished brass.

In the chancel is a restrained brass plate to Rev. Humphrey Henchman, B.A., d. 1785.